[muawiyah]

The Volga Vikings ARE the Russians. Gorbachev, for example, was prototypically Scandinavian! Yeltsin was a "Great Russian", and they are a mixed people of Viking, Greek, Slav and Mongol origins. Life in Russia is usually better when the Scandinavians are on top.

They used everybody they could as slaves, particularly their women, and their fellow Vikings. The most common man's name among the Vikings was "Carl", which means "servant" or "slave".

You read enough about Viking culture and you get the idea that those old boys thought women were a different species useful only for incubating humanculae provided soley by the males!

[dr_who]

provided soley by the males!

Hopefully. But the Rus weren't originally vikings, were they?

[Quix]

Interesting . . .

on another thread recently was an assertion that ET's think it very, very strange that humans do not think of males and females as different species.

[Old Seadog]

The women in the Viking countries were very free and outspoken. It is rumored that the reason the men went a-viking was to get away from their womenfolk.